David K. Wiggins, professor in the School of Recreation, Health, and Tourism and affiliated faculty member in the Department of History and Art History at George Mason University, is the author of Glory Bound: Black Athletes in a White America (1997), co-author of The Unlevel Playing Field: A Documentary History of theAfrican American Experience in Sport (2003), and editor or co-editor of Sport and the Color-Line: Black Athletes and Race Relations in Twentieth Century America (2003), Out ofthe Shadows: A Biographical History of African American Athletes (2008), and Separate Games: African American Sport Behind the Walls of Segregation (2016). He is the former editor of the Journal of Sport History and currently president-elect of the North American Society for Sport History.